Regarding the 152/156 interchange improvements, remember it is
in Santa Clara County, not San Benito County.
Dear Editor,
Regarding the 152/156 interchange improvements, remember it is in Santa Clara County, not San Benito County.
References to the State budget deficit as a cause for this project being shelved are not accurate. TEA-21’s long-awaited, much-postponed “reauthorization” in Congress, which is still hung-up amid oceans of federal red ink, is a more likely cause of the failure to make this highway improvement. A more accurate description of what we are witnessing is not a shortage a money, but rather, spending priorities that rank highways after transit agencies pork, transit agencies “dream schemes,” transit agencies “utopian” solutions, e.g. Lite Rail (Heavy Socialism), Bullet Trains (Bullet-in-the-brain trains for small business and very small business owners) and other Marxist-Leninist transit systems that have us on the road to hell.
Since it is in Santa Clara County, not our county, and since the VTA’s Marxist-Leninist priorities rank BART and Caltrain and Lite Rail ahead of highways, and since they rank contributions to their union employees’ pension plans above everything else, hell will freeze before we see the 152/156 interchange improvements.
Meanwhile, much relief could be afforded by restoration of private-public partnership, i.e., intermodal facilities for the Central California region. That way, some of the big rigs would be taken off the highways and that tonnage would move by rail.
You sure could help this community if you gave support for this idea and stopped knocking the UP.
Joseph Thompson, Tres Pinos
